> It doesn't work for non-programmers. It wasn't designed to work, it was designed to please senior management. Grace Hopper: “I used to be a mathematics prof

> It doesn't work for non-programmers. It wasn't designed to work, it was designed to please senior management. Grace Hopper: “I used to be a mathematics professor. At that time I found there were a certain number of students who could not learn mathematics. I then was charged with the job of making it easy for businessmen to use our computers. I found it was not a question of whether they could learn mathematics or not, but whether they would. […] They said, ‘Throw those symbols out — I do not know what they mean, I have not time to learn symbols.’ I suggest a reply to those who would like data processing people to use mathematical symbols that they make the first attempt to teach those symbols to vice-presidents or a colonel or admiral. I assure you that I tried it.”